Messages - JediJman

I don't know if you could make enough money to support a store that was exclusive SW product. Maybe if they had a restaurant or something to help bring in some money or maybe a museum that they could charge entrance to. It would have to be in a big city as well - there's a limited number of SW collectors in any one place. We have a collector group in Minneapolis and we probably don't even have 20 guys. The other issue is cost - smaller stores like this don't have the buying power that Target and Wal-Mart have, so you're looking at figs costing $8-10 instead of $6-7 at mass merchandisers.

"He flat out told me that he charges so much for shipping to avoid paying Ebay fees on a larger sell price. "

Save the email and contact eBay about it.

That's flat out against their rules and he can have his account canceled should they feel so inclined.

I did...that's the part that has me so pissed. I contacted Ebay immedaitely, forwarded all of me email with his direct quotes about cheating them and trying to pay less in fees and they did NOTHING. After 3-4 emails trying to follow-up with them, I finally just gave up. The seller left ME negative feedback for not paying like $25 shipping on a loose figure and since I didn't pay, the system wouldn't let me leave any negative feedback for him. Ridiculous.

STAR WARSAny ships and figures in the 3 & 3/4" line. Generally one to open and one in the package. Ships I buy just one of and keep them in the package. I have been troop building for a while, but will likely hold back on some of that based on what is coming out/increased prices.

STAR WARS KUBRICKI've picked up the core figures and cheaper variations through Wave 7, but not sure how many more of these I'm going to buy. I expected to get the Exclusive 5 pack with Snowtrooper from BBTS, so when they didn't come through, that sort of killed this line for me. That and the future waves consisting of prequel figs has me avoiding this line for the forseeable future.

MARVEL LEGENDSI pick up pretty much all versions of the Avengers figures, which is a nice way to just get one or two of each fig from each line. I already have a custom Black Knight that's better than the Wave 3 one in my opinion (and has his flying horse), so I'm set on these for a while. Wave 4 has Tigra, but I just got a great custom of her as well. I might get a few of the FF & hulk figures - I think most of these look pretty cool. Valkrye and Invisible Woman are the two I'm most looking forward to.

TRANSFORMERSI mainly just buy the Alternators, which a couple of the TFormers Classics figs. The classics bumblebee fits well with the bigger alternators in bot mode, so I got him and cliffjumper. Not sure if I'll get the next wave of these, but they look good from the picks.

DC DIRECTI'll pick up one or two of these depending on what else comes out, but rarely is it a planned purchase with these figs. Too far behind in articulation for me.

I think that's enough to put me into significant debt over the next year or two.

Still pissed at HTS for stealing my Rodiums out of my cart, but.....at least they gave me a 3 minute window before he was gone

Anyone else seen the pics for the rest of the movie line/classics/universe/toon?

I didn't see this - thanks for posting! All of the classics figs look good to me - sunstreaker, Sideswipe, Octane! Not impressed by the Allspark crap or the animated figures - I'll pass on those. I'm very dissapointed to see no Alternators in the lineup - is this line dead?

Okay, I finally saw it today and I have to say, I thought it was a great flick. I wish the robot modes had stayed true to the 80's and had some trouble following the robot on robot action sequences, but overall I had a lot of fun. The transforming noises and special effects were great, good plot, plenty of action - definitely worth the $7. It was also a lot funnier than I realized - I was cracking up every 5 minutes or so at the jokes. Definitely set up for a sequel, so I can't wait to see what they do next!

For the price, I'll stick pick these up at some point, but I'm with most of you - not overly impressed with the set. Neat idea to do the heads of the design team, but they totally should have gone with more rough features. Heck, use the same heads, but give them a scar and paint them unshaven or something. Nice to have removeable helmets and some new Mandys, but they couldn't done this so much better. i don't mind the shadow repaints of Omega Squad and the arcs, but again was hoping for something more than this. I'm reeeeealy tired of the whole repaint strategy they have going on right now. Let's take every figure and just give them different colors! I would have been more happy with 3-4 stealth guys and a few clones in training or something. Not a fan of the bantha skull clones either.

Again, for the price, I think the set overall is worth it, but just unhappy that they didn't do more...